Plants for Fall

School is in session. Our spring is back in the company of teachers, crowded hallways, cafeterias, and library books. Football practice has begun. Plaid woolen blankets and stadium seat cushions are finding their way back into the trunk next to the umbrella and jumper cables. Soon the ice scraper will join them there, Painted leaves will line the sidewalk aisle through the yard. I can imagine them rustling under someone’s step. Sound and smell rising up for recognition. The imprint of sounds and smells that have never disappointed. Reminders of leaf piles, sweaters, blue autumn skies & scratchy woolen blankets.

Planters and window boxes all around town and across the street have replaced their summer petunias and geraniums with mums and ornamental kale. Their swollen buds foreshadow a vivid and colorful fall. They ease our transition as summer slips away degree by degree. Fuzzy purple grass tails beg to be petted. Can you keep from reaching out and feeling fall?

Give your tired baskets and containers a late summer boost! Large and showy Minnesota hardy and decorative mums fill bare spots quickly and affordably. Perfect additions for late season color! Tuck in one or two flowering kale for texture, a very touchable ornamental grass for movement and grace and voila! You’re ready for autumn. Stop in for a little inspiration or let us do the work for you… We have an assortment of Fall Beauty Planters all potted up and ready to go!

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Tomato Troubles? Plant tomatoes where they will get at least 10 hours of light in summer. Leave room between plants for air to circulate. Alternate growing areas for tomatoes and you diminish the risk of soil-borne diseases such as bacterial spot and early blight. Plant your tomato seedlings up to the first true leaves.New roots will quickly sprout on the stems. More roots means more fruits....

Though it has the word weed in its common name, don't let that scare you away from butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa). Sometimes called milkweed, it's as easy to grow as a weed but much prettier, plus hummingbirds and butterflies (especially monarchs) adore it. Clusters of orange, yellow, pink or vermillion flowers appear in mid- to late summer, followed by thin, ornamental seedpods.

Though it has the word weed in its common name, don't let that scare you away from butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa). Sometimes called milkweed, it's as easy to grow as a weed but much prettier, plus hummingbirds and butterflies (especially monarchs) adore it. Clusters of orange, yellow, pink or vermillion flowers appear in mid- to late summer, followed by thin, ornamental seedpods.